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by ketzo 2y ago
You give them the benefit of the doubt because they tell you exactly what you want to hear?
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by ketzo 2y ago
Programmers are some of the most in-demand workers in the world. You wield significant influence. And any even-slightly-functional workplace will at least try to listen to the word of their experts. Perhaps it’s possible you didn’t do eno
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by ketzo 2y ago
> custodians can be hired SF has one of the largest city budgets in the country — >$15billion — and struggles to staff park workers making $70-90k. If the park workers only make $60k, but the city budget is 1/10th, 1/20th, 1
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by ketzo 2y ago
I mean — the best cybersecurity experts are often former black- or gray-hat hackers. Hiring people with intimate knowledge of Bad Thing to try to fix Bad Thing is not necessarily a bad strategy. Just need them to have very legible incenti
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by ketzo 2y ago
It’s not a false dichotomy at all. You only have so many hours in a day. At a startup, it’s very unlikely (certainly not impossible!) that your differentiation will come from very cheap system orchestration - your time is likely better spen
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by ketzo 2y ago
And if more systems engineers had more design knowledge, navigating the AWS console wouldn’t be like walking on hot coals. But it’s still $X0 billion/year business! We’re all different at good things, and it’s usually better to lean in
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by ketzo 2y ago
People don't react to data privacy stuff with rationality, they don't care to understand anonymization. For 95% of people it's only gut instinct, and that's all it will ever be.
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by ketzo 2y ago
Damn, this is pretty amazing. Feels like we’re not far off from the babel fish.
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by ketzo 2y ago
Correction: Nobody wants content that they can tell is AI generated.
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by ketzo 2y ago
I think they’re pretty close to global max on “relationship-flavored entertainment app for single adults” Optima for “stable-relationship-forming app” are yet to be discovered — and also, I think, to really be sought at all
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by ketzo 2y ago
Damn, I need that framed over my desk.
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by ketzo 2y ago
I think this extends to a lot of normal people’s instinctive hatred of AI: they dislike it in part because they perceive it as being pushed on them by some pretty slimy people
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by ketzo 2y ago
The value that the work produces is not necessarily a property of the worker.
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by ketzo 2y ago
“Large portions of US teens will get second phones for one specific social media app” is an absolutely wild thing to predict seriously
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by ketzo 2y ago
If you know the words “yandex” and “adblocker” you are already 90th percentile ability to pirate content Netflix is absolutely easier to use than any form of pirating for the vast majority of their userbase . Everyone in this thread talkin
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by ketzo 2y ago
It can absolutely matter, and in fact it is all the more important in a single-parent household. You’re right that single vs. two parent household is the largest contributing factor. You’re wrong that it means that no other factors matter a
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by ketzo 2y ago
> the less nuanced the vocabulary, the less ways it could be interpreted I genuinely don't mean this in a dickish way -- isn't this, like, tautologically untrue? By definition, more nuanced, more descriptive language describes
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by ketzo 2y ago
> Let's start with the reality check: I hit the timing jackpot. Right org, explosive growth phase, and a manager who saw something in me before I saw it myself. If you're looking for a pure meritocratic story, this isn't i
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by ketzo 2y ago
But the implicit assumption is that Tesla’s problems can be solved by scaling laws. That seems to me like a big assumption, no? I’ve read The Bitter Lesson, I understand the argument “the human eyes are just cameras, and we do just fine”;
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by ketzo 2y ago
You pose your comment like the answer is obvious, but I don’t know that it is. If Tesla can solve FSD with only cameras, then yes, their ability to scale is much better than Waymo’s. But that is a stupendously large “if”! I’ve seen the Ka
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by ketzo 2y ago
Isn’t it kinda the other way around? I feel like the clock starts the first time a CyberCab gives a paid passenger ride, and that seems like quite a ways out — potentially much more than 2 years. And Waymo has that whole time to bring down
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by ketzo 2y ago
If you're asking a question (whether 1:1 or in a group setting), frontload as much context as possible. Always give: - some minimal description for the problem you're trying to solve - what you've tried already, and why it ha
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by ketzo 2y ago
So how do you debug code written with macros like this, or come into it as a new user of the codebase? I’m imagining seeing the node! macro used, and seeing the macro definition, but still having a tough time knowing exactly what code is pr
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by ketzo 2y ago
If you can feel that way about your work, but still understand that this approach has its own benefits, you're probably a really good person to hire when a startup does hit scaling issues from their crappy original code! Knowing thys
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by ketzo 2y ago
I had the same question, but I imagine that the "media pipeline" box with a line that goes directly from "compositor" to "encoder" is probably hiding quite a lot of complexity Recall's offering allows you
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by ketzo 2y ago
The author of this blog is also very into terraforming Earth! https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/we-can-terrafo...
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by ketzo 2y ago
I think some of the highest value from HN comes from the comments, and it's much harder to find the "best" ones, since they might be in threads you might not have otherwise read. Not sure if it's a "premium feature&
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by ketzo 2y ago
I think OP’s point is that most users don’t choose to do so. Whether because of lack of ability, interest, time, whatever, people would mostly rather just be users.
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by ketzo 2y ago
They're doing 100k paid trips/wk now, per the CEO in a recent LinkedIn post. If average trip value is (very generously) $20, that's still only $100MM in annual revenue . I would bet that doesn't even pay for the direct
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by ketzo 2y ago
I say this completely unironically: trans women programmers w/ blogs are a critical pillar of the OSS ecosystem, it rules

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